The Godless Boys
01 April 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The Godless Boys is the astounding literary debut of Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway.
Imagine an alternative England, where the Church controls the country and non-believers have been exiled to a remote island.
On the Island, a fierce group of boys patrols the community, searching for signs of faith and punishing any believers. When a new girl appears, arriving from...
Details
01 April 2011368 pages
9781447201151Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Vibrant and evocative.Stylist
The comforts of faith, the terrors of extremism, the loneliness of not believing anything at all: these are the aggressively modern tensions that pierce Wood's novel . . . richly conceived.Metro
A gripping, well-crafted tale . . . impressive.Observer
A tender, brutal tale focusing on God, love and violence.Grazia
